Truth with Emily Dickinson and Anna Barbauld, approaching wisdom and reason and Thomas Payne as a capstone.

Tell all the truth but tell it slant--
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise

As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind.

-Emily Dickinson

Indeed, ease into it, or come at it from a state of ease, in a state of ease.

This truth thing that buggers us so much, in the svelte era of the interplay of ease and rationalism, heightened senses to be calipered and so forth, as France fumbles over it itself again and again, from overthrowing fat self-interested monarchs, to the killing of political enemies, to the empire and all.

Too bright...

Here now, the days become shorter, here, November 3 in the Southeast USA.  We will not have such a glut of sunlight with which to contend, but more and more darkness, and then the bugaboo of Daylight Savings Time, we shall, turn over the truth thoughtfully again and again in the gloom before we scream it to the world--plenty of time!

There is an eye that never sleepeth; there is an eye that seeth in dark night, as well as in the bright sunshine.

When there is no light of the sun, nor of the moon: when there is no lamp in the house, nor any little star twinkling through the dark clouds; that eye seeth everywhere, in all places, and watcheth continually over all the families of the earth.

The eye sleepeth not, is God's; his hand is always stretched out over us.

-Anna Laetitia Barbauld

Mr. Burke has two or three times in his parliamentary speeches, and in his publications, made use of a jingle of words that conveyed no ideas.  Speaking of a government, he says, "It is better to have monarchy for its basis, and republicanism for its corrective, than republicanism for its basis, and monarchy for its corrective."  If that means that it is better to correct folly with wisdom, than wisdom with folly, I will no otherwise contend with him, than to say it would be much better to reject folly altogether.

-Thomas Paine